Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ben Hogan-a great golfer...
Through five weeks of debate and backroom maneuvering, the Israelis strove desperately to stave off the vote. Premier David Ben-Gurion denied outright that the raiders were Israeli soldiers, as alleged by the U.N. truce supervision chief, Denmark's Major General Vagn Bennike...
...state of Israel brought forth three great modern Zionist leaders; each had his day and his role. Chaim Weizmann, No. 1, was the gentlemanly persuader, pleading eloquently in the world's chancelleries, the acknowledged leader until the time came for action. Then in stepped No. 2, David Ben-Gurion, the roughshod warrior-intel lectual, the visionary with a rifle who physically established Israel. Last week, to succeed the retiring Ben-Gurion as Premier, the Mapai, Israel's biggest party, nominated a man of quite different stripe: Moshe Sharett, 59, Israel's Foreign Minister...
...Varsity B Whites, despite a 3-0 victory by Freshman ace Ben Hecksher, edged the Freshman Boos, 3-2. The varsity winners were: Guy Pascal over Henry Place, 3-0; and Bob Brown over James Hammond, 3-0; and Bob Milton over Tony Ostheimer, 3-2. Doug Gardener was the other freshman victor...
...competition rampant, and enough talent unemployed to fill a dozen De Mille epics. Hollywood is escaping into the past. Aging cine-moguls such as Mack Sennett, King Vidor and Adolph Zukor are publishing reminiscences about the good old days, studios are remaking old hits (e.g., The Covered Wagon and Ben Hur), production schedules read like mail-order history (Demetrius and the Gladiators, Prince Valiant). But the most startling forays into the past occur at Hollywood's quainter eating and drinking places...